Flex Widgets vs Slate Educational Scheduling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flex Widgets
Create custom widgets for your device's home screen with a powerful and intuitive editor. Add text, images, health data, clocks, and more, then customize their appearance and arrangement.
- Build custom widgets
- Add text, images, and health data
- Place icons, emojis, and shapes
- Create countdowns and calendars
- Design digital and analog clocks
- Share and import widget designs
- Create custom widget themes
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Build your own widgets with the first real widget editor, edit your widgets the way you want. We bring you a super intuitive, powerful widget editor. The all in one widget app. You can place: - texts, icons, emojis, shapes - images, image slideshows - health data like heart rate or steps count (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app) - drawings, buttons, shortcuts buttons - weather icons, weather text elements - date elements, countdowns, countdown visuals, calendars, week overviews - digital time elements, analog clocks - border outlines - and more elements in your widgets. (If you want your health data like heart rate, steps count, exercise time to be displayed inside of your widgets you need to grant the Flex Widgets access to your Health app.) With our widget editor you simply place elements on your widget, edit, move, resize and rotate them. Those elements can be placed on top of each other and you can edit them however you want. Everything is fully comstomisable. Change the text font, color your widgets, add outlines and place as many of the mentioned elements as you want. Share widgets The cool thing is: you don’t even need to be creative to enjoy our widget editor. You can use the widgets others have created or pick out of the widget gallery inside of Flex Widgets. Sharing widgets is super simple. Just press share and send your widget link to your friends! Widget Themes You can also give all your widgets the same look by creating widget themes. So every widget can have the same font, background color, outline border, etc. Here are some more cool features: - Add a drawing element to your widget and turn it into a sticky note. Tapping on it on your homescreen will let you draw on it! - Add buttons to your widgets to open websites or run shortcuts. - Add picture slideshows and have the pictures change every minute. - Health charts: display your heart rate, activity, walk distance and many more health data points in our fully customisable health charts to see how your body is doing. (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app)
Slate Educational Scheduling
This app streamlines the process of managing classroom absences and substitute teacher assignments for school districts. It provides real-time staffing information and detailed reports.
- Enter absences quickly
- Accept substitute assignments
- Real-time staffing information
- Robust reporting
- Streamlined communication
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Slate Scheduling enables classroom teachers to enter absences and substitute teachers to accept teaching assignments quickly and easily. Slate offers school districts real-time information and robust reporting about staffing needs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Slate Educational Scheduling at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. Slate Educational Scheduling also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days). Flex Widgets's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 2.7) and review sentiment (39% vs 0%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Slate Educational Scheduling is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flex Widgets holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flex Widgets has 98 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Flex Widgets's written reviews are positive against 0% of Slate Educational Scheduling's.
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, Slate Educational Scheduling every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flex Widgets | Slate Educational Scheduling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (98 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 98 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yannik Schrade | Penmac |
Customer experience
Flex Widgets
Slate Educational Scheduling
In-app purchases
Flex Widgets
No in-app purchases
Slate Educational Scheduling
No in-app purchases
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